https://johnstewart.me/tags/students-as-makers/Recent content in Students as Makers on John StewartHugoen-usThu, 07 Nov 2019 15:00:56 -0600https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/domains-19-day-2-breakout-session-3-embedded-in-the-fabric/Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:01:25 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/domains-19-day-2-breakout-session-3-embedded-in-the-fabric/Georgetown Domains and the Master’s of Learning, Design, and Technology Speakers: Lee Skallerup Bessette, Randal Ellsworth Abstract: The mission of the new Master’s of Learning, Design, and T…https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/domains-19-day-2-breakout-session-2-weaponizing-your-website/Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:41:59 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/domains-19-day-2-breakout-session-2-weaponizing-your-website/Speakers: Jennifer Hill Abstract: There is a war a raging in our cyberworld and it is time for you to join the resistance. Cambridge Analytica stealing Facebook user’s data, white supremacists gett…https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/keegans-game-jam/Fri, 11 May 2018 19:21:28 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/keegans-game-jam/This weekend, there is a 48 hour Game Jam in honor of Keegan Long-Wheeler. As most of you know, Keegan had to have brain surgery a couple of weeks ago to remove a tumor. In order to cheer him up, w…https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/if-you-cant-write-a-letter-of-rec-for-every-student-change-the-way-you-teach/Fri, 02 Mar 2018 16:27:14 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/if-you-cant-write-a-letter-of-rec-for-every-student-change-the-way-you-teach/TLDR: Replace your course rubric with a letter of recommendation. It’s time that we take responsibility for knowing our students. If you can’t write a letter of recommendation for your…https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/game-design-as-project-based-learning/Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:29:50 -0600https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/game-design-as-project-based-learning/2016 still sounds more like a made up year in the distant future than that time “a couple of years ago.” Nonetheless, a couple of years ago, Scott Wurdingerhttps://johnstewart.me/history/i-am-open-and-so-can-you/Wed, 12 Jul 2017 01:14:35 -0500https://johnstewart.me/history/i-am-open-and-so-can-you/For the next few weeks, I will be taking a history course, something I thought I would never do again after I finished my dissertation. Shawn Graham ishttps://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/digital-note-taking-in-the-history-classroom/Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:20:05 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/digital-note-taking-in-the-history-classroom/One of the projects I’ve been most excited about this semester revolves around an effort to teach history students how to take notes using an online database. The central point of my own digi…https://johnstewart.me/history/recap-of-the-3rd-digital-humanities-day-at-ou/Fri, 09 Sep 2016 18:44:01 +0000https://johnstewart.me/history/recap-of-the-3rd-digital-humanities-day-at-ou/Today I attended the 3rd Digital Humanities Day at OU. Below I’ve identified a couple of the emergent themes and given my thoughts. Below that, I included notes on each talk. Making as a Mean…https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/persistent-student-writing/Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:17:14 -0500https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/persistent-student-writing/I have written before about my dislike for disposable writing assignments in college courses. Like math homework, they serve a purpose in having studentshttps://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/twine-serious-gaming/Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:58:19 +0000https://johnstewart.me/it-edtech/twine-serious-gaming/As we were working on GOBLIN, Keegan and I both got really into Twine as a tool for building narrative-based games. One of the biggest problems in game-based learning and gamificaiton is the idea t…https://johnstewart.me/history/transcribing-joseph-blacks-chemistry-lectures/Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:00:35 +0000https://johnstewart.me/history/transcribing-joseph-blacks-chemistry-lectures/Joseph Black (1728-1799) was one of the best known and most influential chemists during the second half of the eighteenth century. Black’s correspondence, recently published by Jean Jones an…